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[jimotis4heisman]

The Columbus Dispatch : Former OSU football player charged with shooting 2 Columbus police officers

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Former OSU football player charged with shooting 2 Columbus police officers

Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:57 AM
Updated: Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:08 AM
By Debbie Gebolys and James D. DeCamp


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

WBNS-10TV
Derrick L. Foster

JAMES D. DECAMP | DISPATCH
Paramedics and police surround a fellow officer on the ground who was shot during a drug raid.

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Update​

A former Ohio State football player has been charged with shooting two Columbus police officers during a drug raid last night.
Derrick L. Foster, 38, is charged with two counts of felonious assault and two counts of attempted murder in the shootings of Officers John Gillis and Anthony Garrison. They remained at Grant Medical Center this morning, where their conditions are not considered life-threatening.
Gillis, 48, and Garrison, 44, are both 21-year police veterans. They were identified in the police complaint in Franklin County Municipal Court.
Foster is a code-enforcement supervisor in the city's Development Department, making $29.76 an hour, according to city records. He oversees the Milo-Grogan neighborhood.
Foster was a defensive end for the Buckeyes, on the team from 1989 to 1992. He is a 1988 graduate of Dayton Patterson High School and red-shirted his freshman year at OSU. As a player he underwent surgery on his knees and shoulder and also suffered from a chronic degenerative condition in his hips.

 

[Muck]

What a crappy way to get your thread started in the Alumni subforum. :(

 

[TRON]

Mr. Foster will be spending the rest of his life in prison.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

yup, i find it interesting coleman going to see the officers family. i give the guy a lot of credit. granted a city employee who made basically 60k shot the officers but i give coleman a lot of credit

 

[Buckskin86]

Herbstreit, Cooper shocked by arrest of former Buckeye
By Marc Katz
Staff Writer
Thursday, May 01, 2008

When he woke up this morning, Thursday, May 1, ESPN broadcaster and former Ohio State quarterback Kirk Herbstreit sent former teammate Derrick Foster a text message with his Columbus address. Foster had requested it recently so he could send Herbstreit an invitation for his June wedding.

Then Herbstreit heard the news.

"It's like I got hit in the stomach with a baseball bat," Herbstreit said.

Foster, a 1988 graduate of Patterson Co-Op High School in Dayton, was charged with shooting two Columbus police officers during a Wednesday night drug raid. The officers ? John Gillis, 48, Anthony Garrison, 44 ? were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries, according to a police spokesman.

"The thing that shocked me was the shooting itself," Herbstreit said. "I just hope it isn't true that he did that. I had lunch today with Joey Galloway (another OSU teammate), and we said this is the last guy in the world you would expect this from.

"I feel real bad for his family, but the lives of those police officers have been turned upside down, too."

Herbstreit, Cooper shocked by arrest of former Buckeye

 

[osugrad21]

DDN

Herbstreit, Cooper shocked by arrest of former Buckeye


By Marc Katz
Staff Writer

Thursday, May 01, 2008

When he woke up this morning, Thursday, May 1, ESPN broadcaster and former Ohio State quarterback Kirk Herbstreit sent former teammate Derrick Foster a text message with his Columbus address. Foster had requested it recently so he could send Herbstreit an invitation for his June wedding.
Then Herbstreit heard the news.
"It's like I got hit in the stomach with a baseball bat," Herbstreit said.
Foster, a 1988 graduate of Patterson Co-Op High School in Dayton, was charged with shooting two Columbus police officers during a Wednesday night drug raid. The officers ? John Gillis, 48, Anthony Garrison, 44 ? were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries, according to a police spokesman.



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[Buckskin86]

Man feared raid was a robbery, police told
Pair denied bail in officers' shooting
Saturday, May 3, 2008
By Bruce Cadwallader
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Derrick Foster shot at Columbus police on Wednesday night because he thought they were robbers; he was part of a neighborhood dice game when the officers started breaking through the barricaded door about 9:45 p.m., he told detectives.

"He didn't know they were police officers. He responded, maybe not appropriately, but he responded," Foster's attorney, Christopher M. Cooper, told a judge yesterday at a bail hearing for Foster and Michael T. Gravely, who also is accused of shooting at police.

"We're all praying for these officers," Cooper said.

The defense attorneys for both men asked that bail be set at $50,000 during the hearing in Franklin County Municipal Court. But Judge Anne Taylor ordered the suspects held in jail without bail.

The Columbus Dispatch : Man feared raid was a robbery, police told

 

[Buckskin86]

Officers, Ex-OSU Player Discuss Shooting
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Print StoryE-mail StoryCOLUMBUS, Ohio ? For the first time since they were wounded during a raid late last month, two Columbus police officers spoke with 10TV News on Wednesday about the case and the men accused of shooting them.

On April 30, police launched a raid at a suspected crack house on East Rich Street, located on the city's east side, 10TV's Maureen Kocot reported

Foster, who played football at Ohio State, told 10TV News that he never heard anyone identify themselves as police officers.

"The first reaction from everyone inside was we were being robbed," Foster said. "We're being robbed."

Foster admitted that he went to the East Rich Street house to gamble. He also said he brought his gun - which he had a license to carry - for self-defense.

"My whole mentality was, if there were robbers, I want them to know somebody's in here with a gun," Foster said. "Go away."

According to Foster, someone else inside the home fired the first shot.

"Whoever was outside fired back in, and that's when I un-holstered my gun and I fired two shots," Foster said. "Basically, I was firing two shots, like a warning shot."

For the past 13 years, Foster has worked for the City of Columbus. Prior to last month's raid, he had no run-ins with the law. He told 10TV that he wished he could go back in time.

"They feel like, hey, this guy's a criminal," Foster said. "I'm not that. I'm not that -- and I want them to know I'm not that."

"I'm more remorseful than any person could ever be. This is something that has to stick with me for the rest of my life."

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[shetuck]

10TV: No Bond for Foster

No Bond For Ex-Ohio State Football Player

Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:17 PM

Updated: Thursday, May 22, 2008 02:00 PM

COLUMBUS, Ohio ? Despite a show of support from former Ohio State athletes, a judge on Thursday refused to set bond for a man accused of shooting two police officers during a raid last month.

Derrick Foster, who played football at Ohio State from 1988 to 1992, has been in custody at the Franklin County Jail since the officers were wounded on April 30, 10TV?s Patrick Bell reported.

Police were conducting a raid at a suspected crack house on East Rich Street when gunfire erupted. Officer Tony Garrison was shot in the arm, while undercover narcotics Officer John Gillis was wounded in the leg.

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[osugrad21]

Dispatch

Ex-OSU player's support criticized
Police union quickly reacts in support of wounded officers
Monday, June 2, 2008 3:12 AM
By Bruce Cadwallader


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

At least 14 people have written in support of Derrick Foster, with one calling him a role model.


The friends who stood up for a man who shot two Columbus officers now are under fire from the local police union. Derrick Foster, 38, has admitted firing the shots that struck two officers during a drug and gambling raid on April 30. Friends say it was a terrible mistake by a "gentle giant" who is a devoted single father to two daughters.
Foster's attorney, Samuel Weiner, said he didn't realize that the people bursting through the door were police.
At least 14 people, including former Ohio State University athletes who knew him as a Buckeye football player, have written letters of support for Foster, who is charged with four counts of felonious assault of a police officer. Weiner cited the letters in seeking Foster's release on house arrest during a hearing on May 22.
Franklin County Common Pleas Judge David E. Cain denied that request. The Fraternal Order of Police passed on many of the supporters' letters to its 4,100 members and encouraged them to express their displeasure or boycott their businesses.


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[osugrad21]

Dispatch

Bail denied for man who shot officers

Monday, June 16, 2008 6:23 PM
By Jodi Andes


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
A former Columbus code-enforcement supervisor accused of shooting two police officers during a drug raid will remain jailed without bond, a judge ruled today.
Derrick Foster, 38, of 4263 Umiak Dr., is charged with four counts of felonious assault in the April 30 shooting at 1781 E. Rich St.
Foster, who had a permit to carry a concealed weapon, told police he fired through a closed rear door of the house as officers were trying to break it down because someone inside was yelling they were being robbed. He was part of a dice game in the house.
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[Buckskin86]

Ex-Buckeye to plead guilty
Foster to admit at least one felony after shooting two police officers
Thursday, January 8, 2009
By Bruce Cadwallader
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

A plea deal has been reached with a former Columbus code-enforcement officer and Ohio State University football player who is charged with shooting two police officers through a door during a drug raid in April.

Derrick Foster, 38, who has been held without bail since his arrest April 30 at 1781 E. Rich St., agreed to plead guilty to at least one felony charge on Friday, prosecutors said yesterday.

A hearing has been set for 10:30 a.m. before Franklin County Common Pleas Judge David W. Fais.

The Columbus Dispatch : Ex-Buckeye to plead guilty

 

[jimotis4heisman]

The Columbus Dispatch : Ex-OSU athlete sentenced to 5 years in police shooting

Ex-OSU athlete sentenced to 5 years in police shooting

Friday, January 9, 2009 12:37 PM
By Bruce Cadwallader


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Tom Dodge | Dispatch
Derrick Foster stands passively while his attorney, Sam B. Weiner, gestures in Franklin County Common Pleas Court today.

A former Ohio State University football player who was working as a Columbus code-enforcement officer apologized in court today for shooting two police officers during a drug raid. He was sent to prison for five years.
Derrick Foster, 38, of Umiak Drive on the South Side, pleaded guilty to two counts of felonious assault in a plea deal worked out with the blessing of the Fraternal Order of Police.
"It was an unfortunate incident, but I do apologize to the officers," Foster said in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. "I still respect law enforcement, and I always have."
Foster pleaded guilty to everything he was charged with, but Judge David W. Fais could have sentenced him to up to 19 years in prison. The five-year sentence, jointly recommended by prosecutors and the defense, means Foster can apply for judicial release after four years with good behavior.

 

[Buckskin86]

Ex-OSU player's testimony attacked
Man convicted in police shooting says second defendant also carried a gun
Saturday, January 31, 2009
By Kathy Lynn Gray
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Former Ohio State University football player Derrick Foster said he saw Michael Gravely with a gun on the night two Columbus police officers were shot during a drug raid in April.

But Gravely's attorney argued yesterday during his jury trial that Foster's claim materialized only after prosecutors offered to reduce his prison sentence in a plea deal.

Foster, 38, pleaded guilty Jan. 9 to two counts of felonious assault and was sentenced to five years in prison.

Gravely, 20, is charged with two counts of felonious assault of police officers, possession of and trafficking in cocaine and having a weapon as a felon.

Officers Anthony Garrison and John Gillis were wounded during the raid at 1781 E. Rich St. as they tried to batter down the door of the home. Foster, Gravely and several other men were inside gambling when police arrived. Foster admitted firing a gun at the door, believing the police were robbers.

Foster testified yesterday for two hours in the courtroom of Franklin County Common Pleas Judge David W. Fais.

He said that on April 30, Gravely had been sitting next to him and had a semiautomatic gun on the floor in front of him. Foster said, however, that he did not see anyone, including Gravely, shoot a gun during the raid.

Defense attorney Jeremy Dodgion hammered away at Foster's claim that Gravely had a gun.

"You didn't mention my client's gun in prior testimony," Dodgion said. He said Foster didn't tie Gravely to a gun until December, when Foster agreed to a plea deal and promised to testify against Gravely.

The Columbus Dispatch : Ex-OSU player's testimony attacked